Donald Segretti

Donald Henry Segretti (17 September 1941-) was an American lawyer and political operative for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. He was involved with the Watergate scandal, as he was involved with election fraud and defamation campaigns.

Biography
Donald Henry Segretti was born in San Marino, California on 17 September 1941, and he knew Dwight L. Chapin at the University of Southern California before graduating in 1963. Richard Nixon's lawyer Herb Kalmbach paid Segretti to perform "ratfucking", the term used to describe dirty tricks and infiltrations against the Democratic Party. He claimed that Herbert Humphrey spent time with call girls, that Henry M. Jackson had a bastard son, and that Edmund Muskie made offensive remarks against Canadians. Segretti was one of Richard Nixon's political operatives to be involved in these clandestine operations leading up to the Watergate scandal, and he was sentenced to six months in prison in 1974 for distributing forged campaign literature. In 2000, he would co-chair John McCain's presidential campaign in Orange County, California.